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Peter Weyland at TED2023: I will change the world

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About this talk About the speaker Peter Weyland has been a magnet for controversy since he announced his intent to build the first convincingly humanoid robotic system by the end of the decade. Whether challenging the ethical boundaries of medicine with nanotechnology or going toe to toe with the Vatican itself on the issue of []

Writing a TED Talk from the future: Q&A with Damon Lindelof

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Writing a TED Talk from the future: Q&A with Damon Lindelof

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. Director Ridley Scott is returning to a genre he defined: Prometheus, a sci-fi epic, is due out in early June. Like the rest of Scott’s work, it’s a movie steeped in ideas about what it means to be human. Screenwriter Damon Lindelof thought it would be appropriate and, well, incredibly cool to have one of []